| | The Writer as Storyteller expands student understanding of the art and profession of storytelling and how writers adhere to and break rules of storytelling to engage readers and viewers. In studying storytelling, students will examine and apply the foundations of storytelling as well as how writers in the profession will research and develop ideas to make story ideas credible and believable. To achieve this,The Writer as Storyteller presents students with a variety of forms of writing (e.g. screenplay, dramatic script, short story, novel, poetry, memoir, and historical and informational texts), refined literary vocabulary of storytelling (e.g. character archetypes, Hero’s journey), professional expectations of format and genre (e.g. formatting a script or expectations of the mystery genre), and introduce students to professional writers and published authors. In addition to the typical academic study of writing, through analytical/expository and argumentative speaking and writing, students will also become writers themselves and research and write in various forms to develop their unique story ideas. By the end of this course, students will have written over ten compositions, most of them multi-paragraph compositions, in a variety of modes: narrative, expository, argument, analysis, and verse. |